Gulabo Sitabo #MovieReview #BlogchatterA2z #bollywood

Gulabo Sitabo was released in June 2020. Directed by Shoojit Sarcar and produced by Ronnie Lahiri & Sheel Kumar, this film has three very versatile actors - Amitabh Bachchan, Ayushmann Khurrana, and Farrukh Jaffar. The roles of Chunnan "Mirza" Nawab, Fatima Begum, and Baankey Rastogi have been played excellently by Amitabh Bachchan, Farrukh Jaffar, and Ayushmann Khurrana respectively. Other artists also played their respective roles quite impressively. The story of Gulabo Sitabo is written by Juhi Chaturvedi. Music is by Shantanu Moitra and lyrics by Shantanu Moitra, Abhishek Arora, and Anuj Garg. I would say it's a great team work altogether by all the departments.

The story of Gulabo Sitabo goes like this. Chunnan 'Mirza' Nawab (Amitabh Bachchan), popularly known as Mirza, is a very cunning, sharp minded, active, and greedy old man who keeps stealing small items from the Haveli to get some money in lieu of that from the market. His wife, Fatima Begum (Farrukh Jaffar), popularly known as Begum, is 17 years older than Mirza. Begum owns a big old Haveli in Lucknow. The Haveli is in a very poor condition. Besides Mirza and Begum living in the Haveli are various other tenants to whom their respective rooms have been leased out to them. Most of them are not even paying the rent for various reasons. Begum wants to sell this property and puts Mirza on the job to find some appropriate buyer. Mirza is desperately waiting for Begum to die so that he becomes the owner of the property. Baankey Rastogi (Ayushmann Khurrana) lives in the same Haveli in one of the rooms with him three sisters and mother.

There is a consistent tussle between Mirza and Baankey because Baankey never pays the rent of his room and keeps giving convincing reasons for that. Mirza wants Baankey to leave the room and move somewhere else but all in vain.

Overall, the story of Gulabo Sitabo is fast and engaging. It's a good entertaining, lightweight, comedy film performed very well by all the artists. A must-watch if you haven't so far.

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Panga Movie Review #PangaMovie #Panga #MovieReview #Bollywood @hotstartweets #hotstar

The Bollywood movie Panga lacks a number of basic fundamentals of any movie. It lacks rhythm and fuel. The biggest flaw is characterisation of the main character Kangana Ranaut. Weak characterization further weakens with the poor acting by Kangana Ranaut playing the role of Jaya Nigam. The theme of the story is very strong. There is no doubt about that. It could not touch even the double of its budget at the box office. It's a low budget movie. Had it overcome some basic flaws, the revenues could have touched 5 times of its budget without any doubt. Despite having a strong story line, the key role, in my opinion, makes it a weak presentation. Though Kangana Ranaut is well supported by the other actors very well. But she herself could not do complete justice to the role given to her. She was not at her best this time.

The story of Panga movie goes like this. Jaya Nigam is an ex-star in the world of Indian National Kabaddi. She was one of the most successful Indian Kabaddi captain with a great success in National and international arena during her tenure as a captain. Because of her family constraints after her marriage, she had no other option but to compromise with her rising career that too when she was at the top of it. This, somehow remains as a point of regret in her mind and heart. And then after so many years of her marriage, that hidden desire of continuing her career gets ignited by her son and well supported by her husband. Because of a big gap she is seen in a dilemma initially whether she would be able to get back on the track with the same zeal, momentum, and energy.

Jassie Gill has done a fantastic job as Jaya's husband, Prashant Shirvastava. Richa Chadha, as usual has proved her maturity with her polished acting. Yagya Bhasin as Aditya Nigam, Jaya's son, has also done a marvelous job. Neena Gupta, as Jaya's mother, fits the bill perfectly. It's an overstretched movie just because Kangana Ranaut. She could have done a lot better. It's good that all the other actors played their respective roles magnificently. Otherwise, Panga movie would not have been able to touch even its budget figure at the box office. The story gets out of track at many points. The end could have been a lot better. It's a waste of a superb story because of a poor acting by Kangana Ranaut and a weak direction Ashwiny Iyer.

Meghna Gulzar On Deepika Padukone's JNU Visit: Absurd Statement

Meghna Gulzar seems to be worried about the collection of her recent movie Chhapaak starring Deepika Padukone in the lead role. Deepika Padukone is playing the character of Laxmi Agarwal, an acid victim in real life. Laxmi very bravely and gracefully fought back with the grave situation. The same is depicted in the movie. Now, everything was going fine and the projected collection was pretty high until Deepika Padukone's JNU visit recently. The projected earning figures have got shattered as many sections of the society are hitting back on her such action by boycotting the movie and appealing others to do so. Does it actually matter if a refined actress goes and joins some anti-social and anti-national elements for an evening? She did it just for the sake of some stir on social media and popularity. But, isn't it a cheap irresponsible act?

In my opinion, people look at any actor or actress as a role model when they see him or her as a great character in real life and a strong personality. Deepika Padukone visited JNU and just stood there silently. This was a pretty awkward act, in my opinion. What was her purpose? To support JNU activists and their denial of accepting VC, management, administration, and rules & regulations? If she had guts to visit there, what stopped her to say a few words to make the purpose of her visit clear? Is it not funny that she is playing a strong character in the movie while this is something quite dubious? If a large section of society is not taking it positively, there is a good reason behind it. People are not fooled. It matters, whom they like and the real character and ethics of that person.

What is indigestible is the concept of the movie and the concept of the no-age-bar students demonstrating at JNU are completely opposite to each other. The movie comes out with a strong social message for women. Even Deepika Padukone is not a fool. Meghna Gulzar is trying to rub off her this act by requesting to see her talent in the movie and this act in real life separately. Basically, she has feared the negative impact on the movie. And it should happen actually. What is Deepika was coming to the sets of this movie while it was under production with some unwanted notorious characters not acceptable to the society? Would Meghna Gulzar have accepted that?